Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-19
SUFFER AND BE STRONG.

SUFFER AND BE SIhONU'
The publication bv the London Times
of the alleged letter of Parneil in relation
TO the Phoenix Park murder, is only
a fresh evidence of the Yindictive deter
mination of the Conservative majority TO
humble Ireland to the dust. The cruel
heel of England is armed anew, and the
blight of the baleful Rose once more
rests upon the Shamrock. That the
Parnell letter is a forgery Is De-
vond doubt. With the exception OF the
Times, the organ of Government tyranny
not one of the English Conservative Jour
nails are so lost to shame as to assume It's
authenticity. But forgery as it is, it Will
have all of the effect of genuineness. 1t
has been cunningly brought forward at
the most mischievously auspiclous mo-
moment. The Irish members OF the
House of Commons denounce the letter
as a forgery, but the denunciatlon VIII
be of little avail. The coercion
bill is about to be finally voted
upon. The foul accusation against the
Irish leader will retain its full force
until after this final vote is taken, and
thus the purpose of the forgery will be
accomplished. What cares the vindic-
tive Salisbury or the bloody Balfour
about the Parnell letter after the coercion
bill is passed? What care they for the
dirty instrument after its use has been
proven? The Irish members and Glad
stone may demonstrate the forgery a
thousand times repeated after its pur-
pose has been served, and the only
effect will be the placing of
another infamous brand upon the Eng
lish Conservative ministry. And what
cares that ministry for infamous brands.
Its record is but repetition of infamous
brands. The Parnell letter but makes as
surance doubly sure. The Coercion bill
will become a law. The Irish party is
dashing itself, as it always has, against a
rock. The ministry is intrenched behind
the wall of bristling English bayo-
nets that has ever incircled Ireland.
The march of the Coercion bill
in the House of Commons toward final
victory, has been steady and irresistible.
Gladstone's brilliant logic has availed
nothing. The fiery eloquence of Ireland's
own SONS has been quenched in the utter
ance. The sentiment of the English peo-
pie has been laughed to scorn, and
been grimly disregarded. Eloquence
and reason, invective and pleading,
have one and all been powerless.
Amid a tempest of opposition that has
no parallel even in England's stormy
legislative history, the Government has
moved on to its inexorable purpose.
And that purpose is even now an accom-
plished fact. The deadly grip of the cold
and heartless Salisbury has not, and can
/ not, be shaken, and the bloody Balfour
stands ready for the slaughter. In
this, Ireland's latest and deadliest
peril, there is but one remedy. That
remedy is the power to suffer. No other
people on the face of the earth possess
this power of suffering as do the Irish.
1t has been developed in them by CEN
turies of hopeless oppression. The Irish
must once more oppose England with
this weapon of suffering. 'To suffer and
grow strong" And this time the devel-
opment of strength will follow the en-
durance ofsuffering. The final reward of
generations of patience is not far distant.
England triumphs again, but it is for the
last time, Never before has the
world been so aroused to an appreciation
of Ireland's wrongs. The cause of long
suffering Ireland is rapidly becoming
identified with the cause of universal
liberty. The sentiment of the world is
fast crystallizing into stern condemna-
ton of English oppression. The English
people themselves are tired of it, and
there is no great event in the womb oi
time SO near its birth, as the facHthat the
English people will rule themselves
Through Ireland's suffering comes Ire
lands emancipation.